diff --git a/src/lib/libutil/getrawpartition.3 b/src/lib/libutil/getrawpartition.3
index 7c8a3bfd..fc700a00 100644
--- a/src/lib/libutil/getrawpartition.3
+++ b/src/lib/libutil/getrawpartition.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"   $OpenBSD: getrawpartition.3,v 1.3 1999/02/27 21:57:40 deraadt Exp $
+.\"   $OpenBSD: getrawpartition.3,v 1.4 2000/03/06 21:46:56 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: getrawpartition.3,v 1.1 1996/05/16 07:03:32 thorpej Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ partition
 .Fn getrawpartition void
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Fn getrawpartition
-returns the partition number (
-.Sq a
+returns the partition number
+.Pf ( Sq a
 == 0,
 .Sq b
 == 1, ...) of the